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MCP Alliances and new Starter Sets reactions

 

Last week AMG revealed MCP: Alliances a new Spin Off game slated to release in September and today we saw new next two Starter Sets (which I predicted a couple of  months ago here) for regular MCP supposed to come out as early as July. 

We'll go through everything we know about each so far and I give my honest reactions. To them. 

Let's start with the easier one: 

Starter Packs for Asgard and Guardians of the Galaxy 



Asgard will include: 

Thor, Hero of Midgard; Loki, Prince of Lies, Lady Sif; The Mighty Thor; Heimdall; Skurge; Enchantress; Angela; Valkyrie on Elendil; Warriors Three 

So CP91 + CP225 + CP94 

Seeing CP94 included here is definitely a big surprise as it released just last month. I would've also expected the original Asgard Affiliation pack to be among the models here personally. It's still an insanely good deal and a great way to start Asgard. 

Guardians of the Galaxy will include: 

Star-Lord; Rocket; Groot; Cosmic Ghost Rider; Gamora; Nebula; Drax; Ronan, the Accuser; Yondu and Nova 

So a combination of CP222 + CP225 + CP126

It's a fantastic pack for my favorite Affiliation with my favorite Marvel character inside. I will never not recommend this to anyone. 


MCP: Alliances 

If you have no idea what that is first watch the trailer:

https://youtu.be/k6QNeCchyf8?is=_OCBb6QtjbdatJKS



Let's first talk about the new alt Sculpts for Spider-people: 

Black Cat is a huge improvement to her original model. 

Gwen is way more dynamic here and also a step up. 

From their Alliances cards we can assume the Miles and Peter versions we get are: 

Spectacular Spider-Man (Peter). Here I'm not as convinced it's an improvement honestly. Is not a bad sculpt by any means but does feel less dynamic. Not everyone is a fan of the symbiotes on Specys Core Set 2 sculpt tough. 

Ultimate Spider-Man (Miles). Again another good sculpt but not to the level of regular MCP Ultimate Miles (though probably a lot more stable)

I was kind of expecting them to be their two classic versions (Spider-Man and Spider-Man) as those are currently unavailable along with Gwen. It would've been a lot more confusing for new people to have them named the same though. 

And now the undisputed star of the box: 


This new Goblin sculpt is amazing. I can't see myself owning him and ever putting the original sculpt back on the table to be honest. And that isn't a bad miniature at all but this new one is just incredible. 


The minions look great as well and I'm really looking forward to painting them. 



We see that a lot of things appear to be as we are used to them in alliances with Power, Damage, and defensive stats appearing to be the same. Instead of superpowers we get Skills and instead of range and movement tools the game uses Hexes, which makes it easier to see what is in range of what etc. Also XP is an added mechanic in Alliances and allows your characters to level up during the stages of the game. 


These Sentinels also look great. Not sure about their height though as the Hexes don't appear to be wide enough for 65mm bases... 

My guess for the Heroes in Attack of the Sentinels is Wolverine, Cyclops, Gambit and Rouge. 

Am I excited for MCP Alliances? Yes absolutely! I don't really see it as an alternative to play classic MCP with my usual opponents but much more of a way to play with my friends, who maybe aren't interested in starting a new hobby for themselves. Also maybe with my wife and son. Also, as I said above, I'm looking forward to painting some goons. 

I think it's a very good idea to do these and to probably have them take over the Ultimate Encounter space. I hope we will see a fair price point to these packs, which appear to have several instalments already planned. The next one after Attack of the Sentinels is most likely Avengers focused: 


We also got confirmation that these packs contain the MCP stat cards for all characters in them.

And lastly the minis here are all push fit. Which, yeah I won't do. It's nice to have them designed so well that it is an option to assemble without glue but I will just add a little for the extra stability. 

Super hyped to get more information about Alliances at Adepticon hopefully. 

That's it for today. 

Cheers from Germany 🍻 



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